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BBC Weather Refresh

Melanie — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:08:42 +0000

This blog has been originally published on the BBC Internet Blog on the 29th of November. I’m the lead designer of the BBC Weather product within BBC Future Media. In the middle of November we launched a refresh of the Weather site and I would like to tell you a bit about the design process of this project. …

Workshop III Information Design @ New Design University Austria

Melanie — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:30:37 +0000

Like in the previous 2 years, I had again the honour to hold a workshop about informaton design at the New Design University in Austria. This time the overall theme was about our world population to hit 7bn on Oct 31 2011 according to the latest figures announced by the UN. The 3rd year BA students …

Workshop II Information Design @ New Design University Austria

Melanie — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:00:00 +0000

The successful collaboration between me as a guest lecturer and students of the 3rd year BA continued 2010. At the beginning of December 2010 I was invited to hold another workshop for information design at the New Design University in Austria. I’m still impressed with the amazingly divers output and would like to congratulate all the students …

Stezaker, Baldessari & Hyperreality

Melanie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:00:54 +0000

Take an image, make an image John Stezaker, Untitled (For Angus) Film Still Collage II, 2009 The Whitechapel Gallery in London featured the first major exhibition of British conceptual artist John Stezaker from 29 January till 18 March 2011. Looking at his artwork, it was fascinating to realize how the brain tries to fill out the gaps …

Workshop I Information Design @ New Design University Austria

Melanie — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:00:44 +0000

Last year I had the honour to hold a one week workshop about Information Design as a guest lecturer for around 25 3rd year BA students at the New Design University in Austria. Their background is mainly typography and graphic design, therefore Information design presents a new challenge for them and they have to make …

Do good with Data

Melanie — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:32:32 +0000

Periscopic belongs to this new/old (1997) breed of socially conscious studios, that have created their own niche of information visualization services to facilitate information transparency and public awareness. Soo far Periscopic has worked for endangered species, to politics, to social justice. Their new engaging tool VoteEasy allows the general public to quickly and easily see …

SCAMP Conference @ LBi London

Melanie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:30:52 +0000

Organised by the busy bees of SHESAYS, a digital community and network in seven cities across the world with over 3000 members, SCAMP is a conference about making creativity. Several speakers were talking about their work in progress, showcasing ideas and stuff that isn’t out there yet. LBi London on Brick Lane kindly provided their …

From Edward Tufte to the Web and Back Again

Melanie — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:07:52 +0000

Just weeks after Edward Tufte was appointed by president Obama to help with the data visualization and transparency of the goverment and its services, he came to London for a talk at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Tufte became a famous expert of information design, when he started to publish his books, that featured …

BBC’s Desert Island Discs Hackday

Melanie — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:28:05 +0000

Before its relaunch this year, I was able to take part in an Island Discs Hack Day organised in 2010 by Yasser Rashid (Senior Creative Director), Mark Channon (Technical Team Lead) and Chris Lowis (Software Engineer), where designers and developers gathered together to explore ways to let the online audience explore the vast archive data of BBC Radio’s 4 Desert Island Discs. What is Desert …

Is this it? Design For Music @ St. Bride

Melanie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:37:42 +0000

Kudos to St. Bride Library to set up great talks and conferences with interesting topics. Become a friend of St. Brides. Of course it’s all due to the presenters if they can make it an exceptional event by providing new inspiration for the eager audience. The topic “Design for Music” definitely had this potential. Sadly …